A federal judge has found a Wisconsin state law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges, a requirement that opponents say would require abortion clinics to close.

U.S. District Judge William Conley struck down the law after temporarily blocking it in August 2013. The law would require that a doctor performing an abortion be able to admit patients to a hospital within 30 miles of the practice, according to a Reuters report.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed the bill, which Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin says would force abortion clinics in Appleton and Milwaukee to shut down. Conley issued a permanent injunction against the law this week, arguing that it violates a woman’s 14th amendment rights.

He said any marginal benefit to women’s health through requiring hospital admitting privileges for doctors is “substantially outweighed by the burden” the requirement would have on a woman’s ability to get abortion.

The U.S> Supreme Court decided not to intervene in the case last June, ignoring the state’s appeal to a circuit court decision upholding Conley’s temporary block.

Planned Parenthood CEO Teri Huyck said in a statement that the bill was passed in order to make it difficult for women in Wisconsin to get safe abortions.

Gov. Walker signed the bill into law on July 5, 2013, and only gave providers three days to arrange for hospital admitting privileges, which Conley blocked and stated that such a requirement indicates that the purpose of the law “was to impose a substantial obstacle on women’s right to abortions in Wisconsin, according to a WTAQ report.

Attorney General Brad Schimel hasn’t yet commented on Conley’s ruling, which makes permanent his formerly temporary injunction against the law. Planned Parenthood and other abortions-rights groups are hailing the decision.

It is “exceedingly rare” for an abortion to include a complication that would require hospitalization, Planned Parenthood argues on their website, and that even in such a case it would not make any difference for a doctor to have admitting privileges.